Second Regular Session

Sixty-seventh General Assembly

STATE OF COLORADO
INTRODUCED

LLS NO. 10-0647.01 Nicole Myers SENATE BILL 10-031

SENATE SPONSORSHIP
Scheffel,

HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
Rice,

Senate Committees House Committees

Business, Labor and Technology

A BILL FOR AN ACT

101 CONCERNING A PROHIBITION AGAINST THE INCLUSION OF FACILITIES
102 THAT OFFER GAMBLING-RELATED ACTIVITIES IN A REGIONAL
103 TOURISM PROJECT FOR PURPOSES OF THE "COLORADO
104 REGIONAL TOURISM ACT".

Bill Summary

(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does

not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted. If this bill
passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)

The "Colorado Regional Tourism Act" provides a financing

mechanism to attract, construct, and operate large-scale regional tourism

Shading denotes HOUSE amendment. Double underlining denotes SENATE amendment.

Capital letters indicate new material to be added to existing statute.
Dashes through the words indicate deletions from existing statute.
 projects. The bill prohibits any proposed regional tourism project from
including a facility that would offer, make available, or facilitate
gambling-related activities. Gambling-related activities include betting,
wagering, or payments made on or in connection with one or more games
that qualify as gambling or limited gaming as defined by law.

1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:

2 SECTION 1. 24-46-303 (13), Colorado Revised Statutes, is
3 amended, and the said 24-46-303 is further amended BY THE
4 ADDITION OF A NEW SUBSECTION, to read:
5 24-46-303. Definitions. As used in this part 3, unless the context
6 otherwise requires:
7 (7.5) "GAMBLING-RELATED ACTIVITIES" MEANS ANY BETTING,

8 WAGERING, OR PAYMENTS MADE ON OR IN CONNECTION WITH ONE OR

9 MORE GAMES THAT QUALIFY AS GAMBLING AS DEFINED IN SECTION

10 18-10-102 (2), C.R.S., OR LIMITED GAMING AS DEFINED IN SECTION 9 OF

11 ARTICLE XVIII OF THE STATE CONSTITUTION AND SECTION 12-47.1-103
12 (19), C.R.S.
13 (13) "Tourism or entertainment facility" means a facility or group
14 of interrelated facilities constructed primarily for use as a tourism or
15 entertainment venue that is reasonably anticipated to draw a significant
16 number of regional, national, or international patrons. A tourism or
17 entertainment facility may include but need not be limited to museums,
18 stadiums, arenas, major sports facilities, performing arts theaters, theme
19 or amusement parks, conference center or resort hotels, or other similar
20 venues. "TOURISM OR ENTERTAINMENT FACILITY" SHALL NOT INCLUDE
21 ANY FACILITY OR GROUP OF INTERRELATED FACILITIES THAT DIRECTLY OR

22 INDIRECTLY OFFER, MAKE AVAILABLE, OR FACILITATE IN ANY MANNER ONE

23 OR MORE GAMBLING-RELATED ACTIVITIES.

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 1 SECTION 2. Act subject to petition - effective date. This act
2 shall take effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
3 ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
4 11, 2010, if adjournment sine die is on May 12, 2010); except that, if a
5 referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the
6 state constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act
7 within such period, then the act, item, section, or part shall not take effect
8 unless approved by the people at the general election to be held in
9 November 2010 and shall take effect on the date of the official
10 declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.

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